A while back, I posted a YouTube video called The Machine is Us/ing Us. It was an interesting and creative expression of the way the modern internet is changing the way we think about many different things, including art. In this spirit, I’d like to share with you a very cool piece of web art called We Feel Fine by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. The artists describe the piece as “an exploration of human emotions, in six movements.” Harris is interested in collecting stories, and this piece is constantly mining the internet for new ones. Every two or three minutes, We Feel Fine searches through all newly posted blog entries for sentences that begin with “I feel…” or “I am feeling…” It takes those sentences and as much data about the author as it can figure out, then displays them in a number of ways. Check it out here (http://www.wefeelfine.org).
We Feel Fine
